We introduce the notion, issues, and challenges of dynamic coalition formation (DCF) among agents in open, heterogeneous and world widely distributed environments. Results achieved in the traditional field of static coalition formation are briefly discussed, as well as the desired results in the new research field of DCF. We propose a simulation-based DCF scheme, called DCF-S, to be applied to ...

The delay bound in section 3.1 is a corollary of Theorem 10.1, and the fact that the packet-identity-aware definition is stronger than the guaranteed rate clock definition, as shown in the following corollary. We say that a node satisfy the guaranteed rate clock property [1] with rate Ö and latency if the departure time Ò of the Òth packet (numbered by order of arrival) is such that Ò Ò · , whe...

Measurements of two-photon-excited fluorescence (TPF) of fluorescein and Rhodamine 6G in various solvents were performed with a continuous-wave (cw) laser for excitation and an acousto-optic tunable filter for spectral dispersion. Interestingly, the cw laser excitation produced an unwanted thermal-lens effect when the measurements were performed in solvents that absorb the excitation laser ligh...

In 2012, more than 400,000 children in the United States were in the child welfare system because of abuse or neglect. These children are uniquely vulnerable and present multiple health challenges to child welfare and health professionals. According to the most recent Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and F...

In this paper, we assess the challenges of water, waste and climate change in six cities across the U.S.: New York City, Boston, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Portland and Los Angeles. We apply the City Blueprint® Approach which consists of three indicator assessments: (1) the Trends and Pressures Framework (TPF), (2) the City Blueprint Framework (CBF) and (3) the water Governance Capacity Framework (GCF...

In this work, various dispersion compensation methods are designed and evaluated to search for a cost-effective technique with remarkable dispersion compensation and a good pulse shape. The techniques consist of different chirp functions applied to a tanh fiber Bragg grating (FBG), a dispersion compensation fiber (DCF), and a DCF merged with an optimized linearly chirped tanh FBG (joint techniq...

Energy management plays an important role in the transformation of industrial energy systems towards improved energy efficiency and increased sustainability. This paper aims to study driving forces for improved energy efficiency in some European energy-intensive foundry industries. The investigation has been conducted as a multiple case study involving 65 foundries located in Finland, France, G...

Please use the following classifications in the names of ebooks that you input or currently have on your hard drive: 1.) Ebooks are Adobe Acrobat PDF files or Tomeraider type only, do not name txt files ebooks, no matter how long your lines are. 2.) In parenthesis within the name, type (ebook – Type Class) 3.) In the “Type” space put the format, either PDF or TOMERAIDER. In the “Class” space, p...

The principal goal of the NASA Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) and European Space Agency's Darwin mission concepts is to directly detect and characterize extrasolar terrestrial (Earthsized) planets. This first generation of instruments is expected to provide disk-averaged spectra with modest spectral resolution and signal-to-noise. Here we use a spatially and spectrally resolved model of a Mars...

Article history: Received 7 January 2010 Accepted 13 August 2010 Available online 21 August 2010 This paper simultaneously analyses optimal dividend, debt and investment policy within a conventional multi-period DCF framework, and takes account of differential personal taxation over both investors and types of income, the effect of dividends and interest on the level of share issues and hence s...